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Following on from part one of our UFC 206 Bumper Preview, we now give you Part Two. Toronto is the place to be Saturday night for UFC 206, and despite the card beginning at roughly 3am on this side of the Atlantic, keeping your eyes open shouldn’t really be a problem due to an exciting fight card, despite all the recent …

Writing a preview for UFC 206 can occasionally be compared to slapping your head off a wall. Injuries and weirdness everywhere. But this is the hurt game and fighters get injured in camps all the time. The main card first lost Tim Kennedy vs Rashad Evans, rescheduled from UFC 205, to another mysterious Evans medical failure. Then the American Kickboxing …

Matt Brown pulls no punches when discussing how he feels about Donald Cerrone. MMA fan favourites “The Immortal” (20-15-0) and “Cowboy” (31-7-0) squared off in an intense staredown prior to their fight on Saturday night in Toronto. The MMA Hour’s Ariel Helwani captured the moment when both men took to the stage. Cerrone, kitted out in his trademark cowboy hat and slick …

Last week saw the unveiling of what will hopefully go down as a pivotal moment in the history of mixed martial arts. Five of the sport’s most high profile fighters, along with former Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney announced their intentions to form an association for the fighters, one with its key aim being to make a push for better financial …

There’s a certain standard that high level athletes are held to when they compete, regardless of whichever sport it is that you’re watching. In MMA, inclusion in the UFC is enough – for the most part – to prove that you are of that higher level, and of that elite status that makes you worthy to share the octagon with …

The UFC president appeared upset with being left in the dark by the popular welterweight regarding his instrumental role in the foundation of the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association. Speaking on the UFC Unfiltered podcast on Tuesday (via MMA Junkie), White appeared to reluctantly accept the necessity for the recently established fighters union, but was bemused at what he feels is a lack of loyalty from ‘Cowboy’: “At …

Having posted a gruesome video on Instagram last month claiming doctors had managed to ‘save his eye’, Donald Cerrone appears to have now confirmed that it was in fact all an elaborate hoax, as a number of people had suspected due to his part in the filming of a new Netflix series.  However, there were murmurs in recent days that he …

The 30th of November, 2016 may well prove to be a pivotal day in the history of mixed martial arts. During a conference call that was opened up to the members of the MMA media, several key figures in the sport made a stand against the UFC and their poor financial treatment of the fighters they call employees. Georges St-Pierre, TJ …

I’ve always felt like there’s a real sense of occasion whenever it is that Dominick Cruz fights these days. We have been so deprived of his beautiful movement and footwork in recent years due to his battles with injuries that when he does in fact make the walk, it holds a special significance to me that few fighters can replicate. …

When all is said and done, the UFC will look back on the moment they decided to allow top-prospect Rory MacDonald to leave the organisation and hang their heads in shame.  In MacDonald, we had one of the UFC’s brightest talents, a relatively young man who trained primarly in MMA from the very beginning. Over the years he only continued …

After the splendorous UFC 205 at Madison Square Garden arena, New York it was always going to be tough for its follow up act to compete, but today’s news makes it all the more difficult for the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s top brass to promote UFC 206.  The event schedule for the Air Canada Centre, Toronto is now falling by the wayside …

It’s crazy how one massive win can change everything. Just prior to his UFC 205 win over Eddie Alvarez UFC dual-weight champion Conor McGregor was still wrestling with his naysayers, in need of a performance of the calibre of his most recent one to prove his mettle to his detractors. Sure enough, Conor did exactly what he has done on …

MMA referee ‘Big’ John McCarthy is one of the sport’s most iconic figures. His tenure with the Ultimate Fighting Championship extends all the way back to UFC 2 in 1994, and since then he has established himself as the go-to referee when it comes to officiating the promotion’s most high profile bouts. His résumé speaks for itself and his knowledge …

Khabib ‘The Eagle’ Nurmagomedov – in the eyes of many – represents the single greatest threat to Conor McGregor’s lightweight title at this present moment. In the time since both men recorded dominant wins in their respective UFC 205 bouts, a lot of attention has been drawn to the growing rivalry between the two but for those who perhaps watch …

One of the more surprising stories this year, or even of the past few years in MMA, has been the transition made by former WWE superstar CM Punk from the heavily-scripted and cushioned world of the WWE to the very real and dangerous sport of mixed martial arts. It’s almost two years ago now since Phil “CM Punk” Brooks announced …

UFC lightweight and welterweight-hopper Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone seemingly can’t catch a break these days. Last week – in an unfortunate turn of events – his scheduled UFC 205 bout with Kelvin Gastelum was called off after his opponent failed to make weight by a distance that was deemed too vast for the fight to legally be contested in New York, …

While it seems highly unlikely that we’re going to get it anytime soon after Dana White’s recent comments, hype over a potential fight between newly crowned lightweight champion Conor McGregor and undefeated wrestling supremo Khabib Nurmagomedov continues to build. Recently retired middleweight legend Dan Henderson has added his take on what would happen if the two were to meet in …

Miesha Tate is an MMA legend. No ifs or buts, the former Strikeforce champion has consistently competed at the top level for several years now. She has faced some of the toughest competition the women’s bantamweight division has had to offer over the years and epitomises the never-say-die attitude that is essential to a fighter’s make-up if they want to …